The Fourth Wall

Has Draco won?

Draco and Andromeda were locked into a tiring battle.

After Pinkie had been zapped away, Draco had continued to talk on. He had gone into a monologue that most villains do when something goes there way. He had removed the Element of Laughter and planned to take over Equestria. He didn't care what happened to Pinkie, as long as she wasn't in his way. Andromeda could not take it. She charged.

Draco was stronger than Andromeda.

She knew that. But she had to stall. Anything to stop Draco.

She knew that she was at the end of her rope. She could only bluff.

"What's wrong Draco? Getting tired?"

"Oh please Andromeda, stop acting. We both know, I will win this silly little duel"

Andromeda cursed silently under her breath.

She was breathing heavily.

"I want to play with you more, I really do!" Draco said in a stroppy voice.

"But I must stop as I have a dimension to conquer, so au revoir!"

Draco clicked his fingers and a blue ball of pure energy appeared in his hand. Even Draco found it a task to control this thing. He threw it at Andromeda and she gasped. It was pure destruction magic. She put up several force fields but it broke through them with ease. Andromeda tried to dodge but it was too fast. It struck her wing and split the wing apart. Only Princess Celestia could heal a tricky wound like that. She hit the ground with a thud.

"Oh dear! what a mess!" as he stepped into the pool of blood.

"Poor, poor, poor Andromeda, you may never fly again" as he summoned a napkin and pretended to wipe his eyes.

"Finally, this is goodbye, for the last time. ciao!" Draco said in a cheerful mood.

Andromeda lay there in a pool of her own blood, panting and gasping while Draco focused his power on opening a portal to Equestria. He slipped through the portal. Just before he left, he gave a quick wave and a smirk.

"So this is the end Andro' eh'?" she was talking to herself.

"If only i could see Tirion again, that would make it all better"

And with that, she blacked out, a tear rolling down her cheek.

~~~

Pinkie had stayed with her double. They just... talked. No crazy party plans, no food fights or such. Just... talking.

I know, right?

Anyway, they just talked about mundane things, recipes, favorite foods, even there own worlds. They had pretty much figured out that they were from different worlds. But that didn't stop a fizzing sensation in both ponies. It was as if something was gripping at Pinkie's stomach and did not want to let go. Whenever she looked Bubble in the eye, she would blush and look away. She had never felt that way about anypony before. She was a little scared. Bubble was funny, kind, generous and

knew how to have a nice time.

Eventually, they had to leave. Bubble brought Pinkie inside Sugarcube corner. Miss (or was it Mr?) Cake wasn't back from her trip to see Sweet Tooth. Pinkie had thought of the twins and insisted on seeing them. Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake were sleeping soundly, It was tricky to tell the difference in genders because they were only about two months old, but Pinkie could tell.

Pinkie smiled sweetly in their direction. Bubble looked at Pinkie while she was adoring the sleeping babies.

"She looks so cute" Bubble thought to himself,

"Wait, this isn't like me, normally i would be buzzing around, planning a 'welcome to Ponyville!' party. What's wrong with me?"

"Is something wrong Bubble?" Pinkie asked as Bubble came out of a daze.

"What? Oh, nothing, nothing" Bubble said.

He was blushing as he showed her the guest room.

"Well, here it is, although you probably already knew that, heh heh"

"What are you doing? Get a hold of yourself Bubble! That was stupid"

Pinkie giggled, Bubble's internal struggle was showing through, although she had no idea what he was thinking about.

"What's so funny?" Bubble said as he noticed Pinkie's giggling. He smirked.

"Oh, nothing!" Pinkie said, looking away while a blush had etched it's way across her face.

She slowly turned towards the guest room.

"Goodnight, see you in the morning," Pinkie hurriedly shut the door. Once she was out of sight she let out a sigh.

"That was... different" she said to herself, panting slightly.

~sigh~

"Goodnight" Bubble was speaking to the door.

He sighed and walked to his room.

He fell on his bed and hugged his pillow

"I wish I could know what she felt, life's one heck of a roller coaster."

With his head in the clouds, he eventually drifted off to sleep, a small smile on his face as Pinkie invaded his dreams.

~~~

~The day before, when Pinkie had been magicked by Twilight~

An expression of true terror had made itself welcome on Twilight Sparkle's face. The purple mare had only meant to make Pinkie teleport to the other side of the room. Yet she was nowhere to be found. When she performed the spell, it was true that she felt as if someone had hijacked her spell at the last moment, but she thought nothing of it. She had devoured book after book to try and get Pinkie back. She had called her friends, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Applejack. They had formed pairs and gone to look for Pinkie Pie. She might have just been flung to the Everfree forest or on the outskirts of Ponyville. Rainbow and Fluttershy were taking a bird's eye view while Rarity and Applejack were searching for the pink mare on the ground.

"Pinkie! Where are you? Come out, come out!" Rainbow dash called as she swiftly scanned the forest from above. Fluttershy following her at a meek pace.

"Pinkie Pie, could you come out, if you don't mind..." Fluttershy squeaked.

Rainbow groaned, of all the peagsi, it had to be Fluttershy.

Rarity screamed.

"Of all the things, this. Is. The. Worst. Possible. Thing!"

She had stepped in some mud.

"Oh stop yah' whining Rarity. There's some more important things on ma' mind right now" Applejack had said with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"We's has' gotta find Pinkie Pie!"  Applejack had repeated for about the 100th time.

"Yes, yes, darling" Rarity responded, magicking a napkin and wiping her hoof.

They were nearing the swamp.

It was turning dark and the trees started to look more and more eerie as time went by.

"Applejack, we must head home, it isn't safe to stay out here at night" Rarity said to Applejack.

"But, what about Pinkie Pie?" Applejack said with a growl.

"It's getting dark fast, my dear, it isn't safe!" Rarity pleaded.

"Exactly! Pinkie Pie is out thar' somewhere, scared and lonely!"

"Pinkie wouldn't want us to hurt ourselves for her, she would be devastated."

Applejack hadn't thought of that and sighed.

"Ah' suppose your right" she said with her head low.

"Good, good. We'll continue searching in the morning" Rarity said, almost sounding cheerful.

They made their way towards the library.

~~~

Twilight was going crazy with worry for her friend. She was frantically speed-reading every book that had a link with teleportation spells when Applejack and Rarity walked in, Followed closely by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.

"Any luck?" Twilight said.

"Nope" Applejack said bluntly while Rainbow just shook her head.

"Oh..." Twilight said, not bothering to hide her disappointment.

"Well, that's okay. We can try again tomorrow, you can all go home now girls," Twilight said, in a glum mood.

As they were leaving, Fluttershy saw a tear form and drop down Twilight's cheek.

She instantly flew towards her and started comforting her.

The rest of the ponies knew that it wasn't time to leave yet. Each of them settled by Twilight, moving some books out of the way, and started comforting her.

"It's all my fault" Twilight said as she started bawling.

It was hard not to cry at that moment. Fluttershy started sobbing too.

"There, there, sugarcube" Applejack said, as the tears started to form.

"It's not your fault, darling" Rarity said, trying to sound reassuring, she did not succeed.

Rainbow Dash was putting up a front while her eyes glazed over.

"You bunch of saps! We'll find her tomorrow, you can count on it," While she was wiping her eyes with her hoof.

"Thank you everypony" Twilight managed to say "Thank you for being my friends" As tears streamed down her face.

~~~

~Somewhere in the distance~

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Draco stepped out of the portal with an evil grin.

"Eqeustria! You shall soon be mine!"

And an evil, crackly laugh followed.

*Author's note*

Believe it or not, I had a lot of fun writing this chapter

Oh, and by the way, if anyone is wondering, Andromeda is not Celestia's mother.

If you are saying "But why is Pinkie/Bubble so withdrawn?"

I tried to come at it with the perspective of a lover

If you were in front of the person you had a crush on

would you act normally?